In developing his theory of male sexual preference, freud asserted that heterosexual as well as homosexual preferences required explanation, that neither could be assumed to be innate His theory of the oedipal complex, however, held that the heterosexual outcome was the normal resolution, while t … Increasingly freud was pushed to cure homosexuals from their orientation by eager families Freud instead found that psychoanalysis had its limits. Sigmund freud’s psychoanalytic research on human sexuality helped set the standards on psychosexual study in the twentieth century Unfortunately, his views on homosexuality became distorted in the 1950s when psychoanalysts and psychiatrists used his methods of therapy but ignored his conclusions on homosexuality and sexual nature itself.
The origins of sigmund freud’s psychoanalytic theory
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